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Example sentences for: stifling

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Advertising in the '50s had been a timid, stifling business.
It is charged (by knee-jerk Slate haters and paid apologists for our rivals) that by including a free umbrella with each subscription to Slate , we are attempting to extend our current dominant position in online poetry-read-aloud into the market for umbrellas, thereby stifling innovation in this crucial field.
Years ago, in college, Jack impulsively married smart but prissy Judy (Miranda Richardson), unaware that by doing so, he was entering a stifling ivory tower.
Manson is lionized for speaking the "truths" that no one wants to hear: that Christianity is false, that conventional morality is stifling, and so on.
He writes, "Misuse of courts and government agencies is a particularly effective means of delaying or stifling competition."